PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16627, 21 April 1928, Page 3

PERSONAL

Dr. E. Beries. t-lie Czecho-Siovakian Foreign Minister, has arrived at London on a private visit. He is to see Sir A.usI ten Chamberlain next week. | !Mr. Thomas Corson is confined t;o i bed owing to illness, which is expected to prevent him from attending to business for about a month. Mr. and Airs. H. E. Barrett, and Airs. Dempster and Mr. Judd, of Auckland, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. JT. Young, of Omarra Foldior Settlement. —Special. Passengers for Auckland by the Mamma, which left Sydney yesterday, include Sir John and Lady Bell, of Calcutta, Major-General and Airs. Sloan, and Dr and Mrs. H. S. Kendrick.— A.P.A. The Hon. K. S. Williams, Alinister of Public Works, passed through Gisborne yesterday ori his way to Matahiia. The visit- of the Minister was not officially advised, the impression in local circles being that Air. Williams was engaged on a tour of Hawke’s Bay works. The appointment of Dr. A. H. Cockayne, director of the fields division of tiie Department of Agriculture, to direct the seed and plant research station at the Massey Agricultural College, is announced. A special committee has been appointed to supervise the work in conjunction with Dr. Cockayne. . The members are the Director-General of Agriculture (Dr. Reakes), the actingchairman of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Mr Q. Donald), the chairman of the Alassey Agricultural College Council (the. Hon. G. Fowlds), Mr. W. Perry (Board of Agriculture), the principal of the Alassey College (Professor Percn), Dr. 11. H. Allan (Research Council), and representatives of the industries concerned. —P.A. Air. F. P. Clatworthy, of New York, who recently concluded a brief tour ,of the Dominion, in the course of which lie took a number of autochrome photographs, principally for the Geographical Society of America, left Auckland by the Aorangi on his return home. Air. A. 11. Messenger, of the New Zealand Publicity Department, was with him i'or a. while, and ascertained that he had enjoyed his visit and secured some remarkably good pictures. It is hoped that one or two of the color photography plates may ultimately find their way to the Department. He hopes to return to New Zealand in about a year in make a more complete tour. On the Aorangi Air. Clatworthy joined Dr. and Mrs. Kinnaird, of the United States. Dr. Kinnaird was American Ambassador for Italy and Abyssinia, and has been in Sydney. He lias toured New Zealand also.' and intends to write .a book on this Dominion. While in the north, from which he has ujst returned to Wellington, Air. Messenger met Air. Lilly, a New York attorney, who also fravelled by the Aorangi. He, too, had Just completed a tour of New Zealand apd expressed his delight at the fishing' and scenery of the Dominion, announcing his intention of returning to New Zealand next year with a party of New York people.